Where: Lea County, New Mexico (32.1° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified claystone and unlithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Ward, C. B. Schultz in 1940; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• University of Nebraska collection

•site was discovered by "Mr. Shafter Ward of the New Mexico Highway Department of Carlsbad"

•fossils were "eroding out" of the deposit and some "test pits" were dug

Primary reference: C. B. Schultz. 1943. Some artifact sites of early man in the Great Plains and adjacent areas. American Antiquity 8(3):242-249 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 93246: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.01.2010

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